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To arrive at the workshop of master tailor, you are instructed to climb stairs in a nondescript building on St. Laurent Blvd. You push a reception past and enter a workshop panels filled with long wooden tables and bolts of textiles. Giovanni Vacca appears and offers an espresso - perhaps with a stroke of Punch bracing Abruzzese liquor - and flanked leads to a bar with stools in black leather. Welcome to the inner sanctum of Giovanni Clothing Inc - which sports stars shop for fine duds and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to get fitted dress occasions.
"A guy who walks down the stairs, he has just bought," said Vacca, 66, the company president and CEO. "We have customers who buy 10 suits, 12 combinations. We have customers from 25 to 30 years.
'They Leave a Ball'
He dressed baseball and hockey greats, including Wayne Gretzky. In a room at the side, the walls are hung with autographed photos of athletes - from NY Yankees manager Joe Torre, Chicago Blackhawks forward Eddie Olczyk and San Francisco Giants manager Dusty Baker. A glass cabinet is packed with autographed baseball - including some used in the World Series - and a pair of hockey skates dusty. "Guys come in, and they leave a balloon," said Vacca. "We give them a good value for the price," said Domenico Vacca, 35, the son of Giovanni and head of the company's sales and the purchase of the division.
Now, the venerable Montreal company won a contract to supply 553000 dollars for the RCMP in scarlet tunic 3025. Most of them are standard S, M, L and XL sizes, but 250 are made to order for the hard-to-fit officers.
Standard tunics will be delivered by January 31 with others during the next year. The company has added five people to its staff of 45 to complete the order.
Although the family business has provided the RCMP with tunics for the last 15 years, this is not yet the biggest order, said Vacca. "That's about 6000 metres in red serge," said Domenico Vacca, adding that the red rag is purchased from the RCMP. The RCMP is trying to reduce costs by standardizing the red tunic and agriculture in sewing, Inspector Reginald Woods, officer in charge of the strength of the uniform and equipment of the program, said in an interview telephone from Ottawa.
Since 1873, the RCMP had different styles of tunics for non-commissioned officers and officers. Woods said the adoption of a standardized version of the officer's tunic for use by all public officials to make changes more easily.
Maker formal wear
Born in San Pietro Infine, in the south of Italy, Giovanni Vacca moved to Canada in 1948. After working for several companies clothing Montreal, he started his own company in 1965. Much of the activity of the company has just officially wear, "he said, adding that the Syd Silver chain-smoking rental stores the company has been the largest buyer of 22 years. "We do about 40 percent of the formal wear made in Canada," he said. Vacca daughter Marisa, 40, and her husband Joe Maiorano, run the Da Vinci Pants division across the street, which has spun off several years ago. Daughter Paulina Vacca, 38, has worked in the office of Giovanni. Although he would not disclose the financial results of the private company, Giovanni Vacca anticipates a turnover of more than $ 2.5 million in 2000.
